Thunder Strikes Back

Chapter 398 Blackout

This assault mission goes deep into the enemy's territory and has high requirements for air superiority.Therefore, for the first wave of strikes, the headquarters chose heavy fighters under the cover of light fighters instead of using fighter-bombers with larger bomb loads. The attack time was also slightly later than the power transmission to the Uttar Pradesh region of India. The facility, the attack using graphite bombs, is mainly to continue to create an illusion for the enemy in the main direction of attack.

As far as the formation is concerned, the focus of prevention is also different from the direction of Tawang. It is not the Rafale fighter jets taking off from Bihar, but the Indian Navy MiG-29 fighter jets that may cross the airspace of Bangladesh at any time.Judging from several combat situations, the pilots of the Indian Navy have a higher awareness of actively seeking battle than most of the pilots of the Indian Air Force.

The J-11B aircraft is equipped with medium-range missiles and graphite bombs specially prepared to destroy power facilities.Graphite bombs are used for the first time by the Chinese army. The actual combat effect remains to be evaluated, but the bomb itself has been upgraded to the second generation.What will be used this time are glide bombs with satellite navigation capabilities that can be launched outside the area.The distance of the bomb explosion is set higher than the general situation to ensure that in the scattered area, the intelligence gathering troops will collect the effect of this attack at the first time, so as to adjust several parameters in preparation for the second attack.

On the far western front, the PLA will also use cruise missiles carrying graphite fiber warheads to carry out a tentative strike on an area outside New Delhi. Check the reliability of the electrical system.

After the formation of J-11B fighters took off, with the help of navigation equipment, they calmly flew at low altitude among the Himalayan mountains, occupying the geographical advantage of the roof of the world. Most of the time, the formation can avoid the warning radar of Tezpur.At 1 o'clock in the morning, the formation that carried out the first "blackout strike" had reached the sky above the control line, waiting for the cover formation to approach.

According to the superior's plan, when the army aviation troops broke into the hinterland of Assam at night, the entire Brahmaputra River Basin should be pitch black.In this way, neither the local garrison nor the common people can know exactly what happened.

In Tispur's headquarters, Lieutenant General Chaguye continued to stay up all night, waiting for the Chinese army to enter his trap.For him, an old infantryman, the situation was entering a phase of ebb and flow as the enemy's front line extended.That is to say, when the Chinese army built a bridge on the Tawang River, in fact, their distance from the rear was roughly the same as the distance from Assam to reach there. The mountain division will give the enemy a counterattack.In order to prevent the occurrence of the 10nd, where the place is interspersed from the flanking Bailey trail, he used the 20th division headquarters and two regiments as a reserve team to be on standby east of Dejangzong.

The lieutenant general doesn't care about the early progress of the Chinese. He thinks that he deliberately gave it to the opponent, and sooner or later the opponent will spit it out.

Thinking that the People's Liberation Army did come back along this old road again, thinking that all Indians have no memory, he couldn't help but feel a little proud.Although he doesn't have the advantage of reconnaissance, he is confident that he is fully integrated into all the opponent's plans.He can guess what the enemy is thinking. This is undoubtedly the highest level that a commander can achieve.

"Unsurprisingly, within a few days, the Chinese will take Tawang, but their supplies will become more and more difficult. Apart from the benefits of their propaganda, there is no military significance."

"Commander, does that mean we will continue to retreat?" the adjutant asked.

"Hehe, when the enemy is stupid, don't disturb him; you have been with me for so many years, you should know my command style, I just don't care about the gains and losses of a city or a place."

"Is that so?" The adjutant pretended to be enlightened from ignorance. This is the lieutenant general's style that he has really explored over the years. He likes to be a teacher and doesn't like subordinates to express different opinions.

"In this area, real battles can only happen on the ground. Although they have mastered the air supremacy in some areas, they still have to face logistical problems in the end. We just need to wait for work...waiting for their troops and supplies to run out Moment."

"The commander is really clever."

"As long as all the airports in Assam are operational, we will..."

"Report." Someone came over and interrupted the Lieutenant General's in-depth explanation of the plan.

"The enemy's new radar station has just been detected, and the verification location is the radar on a 5500-meter high mountain."

"what?"

The lieutenant general couldn't help being taken aback.Both the Intelligence Bureau and the agents sent out by Lausanne believed that the radar would take some time to be repaired.In his plan to rely on C17 for intensive transportation to the military area, this radar should not exist.

"Commander, is it just a radar?"

"What do you know, the threat of this radar, more than 5 early warning aircraft, it can detect every airport in the depth, and it will not stop from now on. Immediately send a report to New Delhi, let them think of a way, can make Tiger Shark Squadron Make another move."

The Tiger Shark Squadron with Rafale fighter jets is not dispatched by the Lieutenant General, but the Minister of Defense promised him that this force can be used to support the area at any time.

The Linzhi Plateau Radar was suddenly put into use, and for the Lieutenant General, it was undoubtedly a slap in the face.This radar can continuously provide more complete and far-reaching airspace information; and this roof area is actually not very suitable for the use of early warning aircraft, especially at night.

After the J-11 formation passed through the mountains, it quickly pulled up to a height of 6000 meters, and then turned to the designated bombing area.At the same time, the formation can also share the information collected by all radar stations in the area and another early warning aircraft on duty through the data link.The pilot only needs to adjust the magnification on the navigation display, and he can see the movement of the enemy air force fleet within thousands of square kilometers.Linzhi's phased array radar can give early warning of possible enemy MiG-29 fleets in the direction of Bangladesh, roughly one minute earlier than the early warning aircraft.

From the perspective of dispatch efficiency, the enemy planes should not be able to intercept the J-11B formation before it reaches the bombing area. However, for the sake of caution, the four heavy fighters still merged with the other four J-4 fighters.

The J-10B formation is also responsible for attacking nearby ground radars that dare to turn on.This kind of pressure forces most of the Indian surface-to-air missile forces to conduct short-term start-ups to search the airspace, and most of the Indian missile forces are relatively backward in technology, and their positions need to rely on several radars ranging from alert to search irradiation. Only by working at the same time can an attack be launched. Such a difficult-to-coordinate system is obviously not conducive to the hit-and-run sneak attack tactics.Of course, it is admitted that in the long-term see-saw offensive and defensive battle, the Indian air defense force has inevitably made some progress. Although the Sam 6 position is difficult to hit and can counter air targets, the Indians are good at running and hiding.The Chinese Air Force's routine of high-altitude detection, locking radiation sources, and diving to launch anti-radiation weapons is no longer so effective.It turned out afterwards that most of the anti-radiation missiles either couldn't keep up with the speed of the enemy's shifting positions, or they hit some fake radiation sources.Through close reconnaissance, the Snow Wolf troops have confirmed that the enemy has installed a fire control radar on a motor vehicle that is likely to belong to the MiG 21, in order to lure the Chinese Air Force to use up anti-radiation weapons.

The J-10B formation detected the radiation source on the ground. According to the map, it is on the open ground in the Danba Valley, which seems to be an old-fashioned radar with a trailer.The pilot didn't dare to neglect, and quickly rushed forward, ready to be caught off guard.The formation of heavy aircraft has also reached the designated airspace. They checked the inertial navigation information on the bomb for the last time, and calmly dropped dozens of 250kg glide bombs.The target areas set by these bombs are different, and the reason why they are dropped together is mainly to use the richness of the range to ensure the formation of the flight formation.The extensive use of fire-and-forget out-of-area weapons has changed the air force's attack mission, which seems to have become easier than ever.

When the J-11 formation turned and returned, the rear radar station detected the Indian MiG-150 fleet still 29 kilometers away from the formation. This radar really advanced the early warning time by about 1 minute.

The J-10B formation had just fired anti-radiation weapons and turned to face the group of enemy planes.At such a distance, the enemy can only provide limited voice guidance from the long-range ground radar, and its fire control radar cannot preemptively intercept any targets, but relying on the data link, the situation of the J-10 formation for precise combat is much better, 4 The fighter plane quickly seized the dominant position 100 kilometers away, and quickly captured the enemy plane. In addition to the continuous input of ranging information, it also confirmed that the target was indeed a MiG-29 fighter plane. fight.

The leader of the formation quickly assigned the target. At 90 kilometers, the fighter’s fire control radar intercepted all 5 enemy planes. This distance is indeed a bit far for launching missiles. However, in such a dark night, the command decided to expel the enemy planes. Mainly, try to avoid large fleet encounters at close range.

The Chinese fighter plane launched 75 medium-range missiles at a distance of 8 kilometers. From the display, the enemy plane did not make countermeasures for a while, but continued to fly head-on unbelievably.

Until 60 kilometers away, the enemy plane probably detected a Chinese plane or missile.The fleet began to turn to evade, and with a series of turning movements, most of the missiles dragged their targets.But a MiG 29UPG that fell behind suddenly and abnormally lowered a lot of altitude.When the J-10 formation was making a turn, an AWACS aircraft on duty happened to turn and approach from the west. Before that, he had been paying attention to other directions and kept silent on the radio. Suddenly, someone on the AWACS aircraft reported that a MiG-29 had fallen into the mountains. , should have been shot down.Then the officer on the command plane added: This firing seems to have broken the record for long-range shooting down in this war.

Inevitably, how to distribute the results of the battle will become a difficult problem. All the radars in the area and the mid-course correction data of the missile cannot confirm who shot down the target.

Just as the Chinese fighter plane was returning, the glide bombs launched earlier were roaring towards their respective targets.India's power transmission and transformation equipment in this area is relatively concentrated, mainly due to the fact that in recent years they have dammed the upper reaches of the Bratmapura River for hydropower generation.The intelligence agency confirmed that most of the power transmission and transformation equipment was made in Japan. In the bidding activities many years ago, with a cost disadvantage of 2 times, it miraculously defeated the contract won by similar Chinese products.

The Indian government officials who presided over the tender made this decision on the grounds that it is not appropriate to introduce Chinese equipment that may be easily damaged by Chinese missiles in a war in areas adjacent to China.Look now.How absurd this reason is.

When the bomb flew over the target, its speed was reduced to a minimum, and the altitude was still 1500 meters.If it has eyes, from this height, you can see a series of small towns shining in the middle and lower reaches of the river.

The bomb flashed a cluster of sparks at the specified height, and then scattered into hundreds of small cylindrical objects. These small cans opened their own small parachutes and fluttered down to the ground.As they fell to a lower altitude, the tiny graphite fibers inside the cylinder began to scatter with the wind.The area where the fibers are scattered is large enough to offset possible errors caused by a wind direction.

A weak flying fiber first fell on the towering high-voltage electricity tower, and its other end was then connected to the wire on the other side.

Just a second or two after the huge flash, a small town across the river was plunged into darkness.

(End of this chapter)